Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-04
WOMAN'S REALM.
Rs Hns. L. II. BL4rx. rnr-o,
The Sunny South.

The Sunny South.
Inc following is an extract from 3
private letter to the associate edito.
written By a"sister" who has been obi
ged to leave the frozen north and seek
= SUMMER cline On account of falling
health.
SAN AN1ofrIo. TEXAS, Feb. 18th 1887.
e'**~ Here | am away down in,"Dix-
ie'o or the Sunny south;'-but. much
to the discomfort Of the natives a cold
wave reached us last evening, and this
morning, to my %amazsment, l found the
porch floors and north sides of posts
and trees covered with sleet, but before
ten o'clock the ice was all gone. 1t ie
growing warmer as the day advances
though the nerther will probably con,
tinue about three days. We left home
two weeks ago today at 8p. M, reached
st. Louis in about 12 hours. or on Satur-
day morning, whore We remained un-
til 800 p. m. when we entered luxuri-
GUS Pullman sleeper with tickets for
San Antonio via. Missouri and Pacific
road. We arrived IN safety after traiv-
cling about 1900 miles in 65 hours, and
were taken to "lIotel Maverick" whore
50. . day is charged for much poorer Nc
Communications than may be obtained
for GIL 80 or $500 in Iowa or Dakota,
Almost every thing costa more here
than north of Indian Territory; oven
eggs are p cts. adozen while chickens
seem very plenty, roost in trees the
year round and almost take care of
themselves. < = This il An old city and
was first occupied by the Spanish. l
guess nearly oil nations hAve their rep
resentatives here, and We see strange
sights in the streets and on tho Plazza's,
(open squares,l when the people con-
gregate with marketable articles, but
Military Piazza, is the greatest curlosi-
ty. There the Mexicans have little
tents. a fey small carts, and many ia,
bles where they serve warm meals,
anytime, day or night, that any one
hungry enough to eat of Mexican cook
ing will go and buy. At night they
have their tables beautifully lighted
by large lanterns and lamps of all col
ors. Their religion is of the Catholic
faith. Nearly all of the different de-
nominations are represented here and
have nice buildings in which to wor-
ship, Trinity NJ. f. Church North is
just across the street from my room.
am boarding at present with . south
ern lady who knows. nothing about
housekeeping from the fact that she
was raised in wealth and luxury and
lived on in the came way until her hus-
band lost his fortune and position, then
she with true heroinism opened priv
ateboarding house AID does we'll ut it.
Sets . table with great variety; hot bis
cults, cakes, mullins, waties or corr
bread every meal, and rice is always
served in some form. am very much
better than when l left home, and
think by the last Of May ! will be quite
well. Yours etc.
DEAE Mrs. ED1ToR:-The longer !
take your paper the better l like it. l
must say l think the voman's column
a great addition to the paper; that
alone is worth the price of the paper.
1t seems to be quite a novelty in this
part of the country. take great in
terest in the progress and education of
~womankind, and l should know very
little of the works and worth OF women
did | depend upon the average news
paper for my information. Luckily
there are editors who are sufficiently
developed to recognize women as 4 fac
tor Of some Importance, politically rs
we'll as socially. would that every
woman in Jerauld county. yes in Dako-
ia nigh, read Mrs. Colby's paper edit
ed monthly at s1.W per year, how soon
they would find that women are doing
a grand work for women, in securing
better laws. but to what q dlsadv3nt-
age on account of being denied
the ballot, yet they are not discourag-
ed. for n get tired Of reading of
men and their doings when | know
very we'll that the women are working
as hard and accomplishing nearly as
much, if their hands are hid by the
man-made laws of the land.
Yours for equality.
Il SltBsCRlnER.
Queen Margaret Of Italy recently
sent q story to 81 Roman periodical, un-
der an assunasd name. and Is Was re-
iected.
Mira. Margaret Preston, the Author